But no route at present offers more favourable or exhilarating opportunities to the high-minded excursionist than the main Gath road from Scrapston to Kinlarry. Excellent sport is afforded just outside Stillminster, where Sir John Goodfellow's greenhouses are within easy bottle-throw of the road and furnish a splendid target. On the whole, however, it is thought advisable to abstain from saluting the neighbouring hospital for shell-shock patients with a salvo of megaphones, local opinion being adverse to such manifestations.


RHYMES OF THE UNDERGROUND.

The Ealing trains run frequently,

The Ealing trains run fast;

I stand at Gloucester Road and see

A many hurtling past;

They go to Acton, Turnham Green,

And stations I have never seen,

Simply because my lot has been